Article: Playboy's Sexual Revolution tour hits Washington

Matt Stearns
University Wire
01-13-1998
(Medill News Service) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON -- Most people probably don't think about Washington when they think about sex.

But the nation's capital has played a major, and mostly negative, role in the sex lives of Americans, self-styled sexual historian James Petersen told about 100 people last week when Playboy Magazine's History of the Sexual Revolution tour came to town.

That role hasn't been limited to bumbling politicians groping starry-eyed interns. No, Washington politicians take sex almost as seriously as they take themselves. And that's no laughing matter when it affects public policy, said Petersen, a Playboy senior staff writer who directed ...

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